RN
I think he still does the occasional TV work, I remember him reporting on the VD show after the Manchester attacks. He also did the VD headlines and Newsroom Live one morning last week.
Matthew Price presenting the VD headlines from the newsroom this morning. I thought he'd left TV and gone to work for Radio 4?
I think he still does the occasional TV work, I remember him reporting on the VD show after the Manchester attacks. He also did the VD headlines and Newsroom Live one morning last week.
IS
I think he still does the occasional TV work, I remember him reporting on the VD show after the Manchester attacks. He also did the VD headlines and Newsroom Live one morning last week.
I think he still does the occasional TV work, I remember him reporting on the VD show after the Manchester attacks. He also did the VD headlines and Newsroom Live one morning last week.
Matthew Price presenting the VD headlines from the newsroom this morning. I thought he'd left TV and gone to work for Radio 4?
BA
Now Sky Sports News Headquarters High Definition is gone as a name, we need another programme with the full title spelt out - The Victoria Derbyshire Programme with Victoria Derbyshire / Joanna Gosling / Chloe Tilley / Brian Blessed is ideal.
I think at this point you just have to understand that VD is the shorthand for this show! Unless you want to call it VicDerb?
Now Sky Sports News Headquarters High Definition is gone as a name, we need another programme with the full title spelt out - The Victoria Derbyshire Programme with Victoria Derbyshire / Joanna Gosling / Chloe Tilley / Brian Blessed is ideal.
TF
TellyFan
Huw Edwards has tweeted he is back next week after health issues.
RN
Interesting to see ITN's Lewis Vaughan Jones reporting on the Victoria Derbyshire show this morning. Is he a freelancer?
NE
Not really, until the last few months it was extremely rare for anyone other than James O'Brien to present other than the main presenters. The number of different presenters being used at the minute will be down to Emily Maitlis being out of contract and therefore unavailable as well as typical August holidays meaning at least 2 of the presenters are semi-regularly unavailable on the same week.
Well they must have sorted things out then as Emily is back next Tuesday-
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b093x316
This is one of the good things with newsmight- different presenters get tried- Emma Barnett, Kamal Ahmed etc
Not really, until the last few months it was extremely rare for anyone other than James O'Brien to present other than the main presenters. The number of different presenters being used at the minute will be down to Emily Maitlis being out of contract and therefore unavailable as well as typical August holidays meaning at least 2 of the presenters are semi-regularly unavailable on the same week.
Well they must have sorted things out then as Emily is back next Tuesday-
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b093x316
NG
Yep - summer has always been a bit 'musical chairs'. In times gone by Newsnight reporters would sometimes stand in, and more recently Eddie Mair was a regular stand in. Summer is often used as a way of trialling new faces - not always for the programme they are standing in on, but to see their abilities in a wider context. The reality of TV presentation is that the only way of seeing if anyone is any good at it, is to try them out. Off-air screen tests can tell you that someone isn't suitable, but they can't demonstrate that they are...
noggin
Founding member
Is everyone not getting a bit overexcited? I don't pay attention to rotas but I even I remember the odd faces that have popped up on Newsnight in Summers gone by - I seem to remember Andrew Neil doing one programme last year!
Yep - summer has always been a bit 'musical chairs'. In times gone by Newsnight reporters would sometimes stand in, and more recently Eddie Mair was a regular stand in. Summer is often used as a way of trialling new faces - not always for the programme they are standing in on, but to see their abilities in a wider context. The reality of TV presentation is that the only way of seeing if anyone is any good at it, is to try them out. Off-air screen tests can tell you that someone isn't suitable, but they can't demonstrate that they are...
HO
That said, Emily Maitlis wasn't presenting because she was out of contract (confirmed by the Press Office). I suspect her return, after months without presenting, means she and the BBC have privately reached an agreement.
Is everyone not getting a bit overexcited? I don't pay attention to rotas but I even I remember the odd faces that have popped up on Newsnight in Summers gone by - I seem to remember Andrew Neil doing one programme last year!
That said, Emily Maitlis wasn't presenting because she was out of contract (confirmed by the Press Office). I suspect her return, after months without presenting, means she and the BBC have privately reached an agreement.
CO
Unsurprisingly over the summer months, Gavin Grey becomes quite a regular relief presenter on the late evening/overnight shifts (especially on weekends), but what do people think of him and his style?
Personally, I quite like the authoritative tone (similar to Alastair Yates') and that he sees himself as journalist first and a personality second- such as he only introduces himself by name at the TOTH and no other time, and the links out of breaks are to the point, normally as simple as "this is BBC News and these are the headlines".
There can be a few shakey moments with some stumbles but that can be expected when he doesn't work primarily for the BBC and so won't be as well rehearsed as Huw Edwards.
I would be interested to hear other views on this because I haven't heard a single constructed opinion on him.
Personally, I quite like the authoritative tone (similar to Alastair Yates') and that he sees himself as journalist first and a personality second- such as he only introduces himself by name at the TOTH and no other time, and the links out of breaks are to the point, normally as simple as "this is BBC News and these are the headlines".
There can be a few shakey moments with some stumbles but that can be expected when he doesn't work primarily for the BBC and so won't be as well rehearsed as Huw Edwards.
I would be interested to hear other views on this because I haven't heard a single constructed opinion on him.